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Using the Wordpress advanced visual editor (TinyMCE Advanced) to apply CSS styles, edit tables, search-and-replace, spell-check and more

There is a superior visual editor for WordPress that you can install and configure to your site in 2 minutes.  It’s called TinyMCE Advanced.  It offers a rich expansion over the default editor, particularly:

Imports all CSS classes from the main theme stylesheet and add them to a drop-down list.
Support for making and editing tables (with [...]

How to control image size and type (.jpg or .png) in Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is a marvelous tool for putting rich content (images and video) into a blog post and pasting / cropping / resizing images mixed-in with text.  It only suffers from one limitation that I can see: when  pasting an image from the clipboard it always generates a .png image which tends to be [...]

Free project management software, team collaboration, automated time-tracking and invoicing tools

The problem

I run a website development and internet marketing service company with an international provider (outsourcing) network, mostly recruited from ODesk.  I need a way to effectively manage multiple concurrent projects and assure semi-automated billing to my customers, many of who pay for services on an hourly basis.

The solution

For 3 years I ran a website [...]

Why traditional website publishing is dead (and why you should use Wordpress or similar CMS instead)

Summary: This articles discusses the benefits of using a Content Mangement System (CMS) such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, etc, for creating your website; and compares the new technology to the old way of creating a website, that involved using a web designer and a static html site that went through various stages (mockup, conversion [...]

How to find a good WordPress theme for your business or corporate website

This is an important decision for several reasons:

Your site’s appearance (“look and feel”) is determined by your theme.  A good theme will make the difference between a professional-looking site and one that isn’t.
You should choose your theme fairly soon after you begin your site, since it does have an impact on how you create your [...]